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Where the Spirit Lives

6.219901h 36mPGMovieDrama

In 1937, a young First Nations girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated…

DirectorBruce Pittman
WriterKeith Ross Leckie
ProducersPaul Stephens·Mary Young Leckie

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Cast · Directed by Bruce Pittman

MJMichelle St. John
Michelle St. John
Komi / Amelia
KF
Kim Bruisedhead Fox
Anataki
MJ
Marianne Jones
Komi's Mother
GM
Gus Chief Moon
Ka - moos - ee
CJ
Clayton Julian
Pita / Abraham
MC
Margaret Cozry
Grandmother
MF
Marge Fox
Anataki's Mother
AMAnn-Marie MacDonald
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Kathleen
SM
Sean Mulcahy
Priest
SMSam Malkin
Sam Malkin
Mr. Crawford
DPDoris Petrie
Doris Petrie
Miss Weir
CJChapelle Jaffe
Chapelle Jaffe
Miss Appleby

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Where the Spirit Lives hasn't started streaming in United Kingdom yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around July 25, 1990. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.